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• [Disease fact 1] A nurse's aide named Elizabeth McWilliams took care of influenza patients in 1918. She worked tirelessly for patients before contracting the illness herself and dying. Her last words were “I am happy because I’ve tried to be a real American.”

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• [Disease fact 2] Taijin kyofusho is a disorder unique to Japan and Korea where sufferers do not want to embarrass other people with their presence.

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• [Disease fact 3] A woman named Joy Milne from Perth, Scotland can smell Parkinson's disease. In a study, she was able to accurately identify 11 out of 12 patients with Parkinson's disease. Less than a year later, the last patient was also diagnosed with Parkinson's, making prediction correct in 12 out of 12 patients.

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• [Disease fact 4] Jono Lancaster who was born with Treacher-Collins syndrome travels to meet children with the same disorder in hopes of inspiring them to embrace their features and live their lives to the fullest.

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• [Disease fact 5] The SARS (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome) virus is so infectious that a single man in Hong Kong infected 183 people in 8 apartment buildings with one horrific bowel movement, causing a plume of aerosolized feces to circulate through the ventilation system and outside through the wind.

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• [Disease fact 6] President Grover Cleveland had cancer and had surgery in secret on his yacht. This was to avoid the stigma of cancer at the time.

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• [Disease fact 7] During World War 1, French prostitutes with severe cases of syphilis charged higher rates than uninfected prostitutes, because soldiers infected with syphilis were removed from the front line.

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• [Disease fact 8] The Black Death was personified by an old woman carrying a rake and a broom. Norwegians told that if she used the rake, some of the population involved might survive, escaping through the teeth of the rake. If she on the other hand used the broom, then the entire population in the area were doomed.

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• [Disease fact 9] There was a pandemic in the early 20th century that caused life-long stupor and Parkinsonism in survivors, with many sleeping during the day and waking at night. It resulted in the deaths of millions of people worldwide. It was called the “Sleeping Sickness” and the causative agent behind this pandemic has never been found.

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• [Disease fact 10] During the 1918 flu pandemic, 62 Boston prisoners volunteered to be injected with infected tissue and sprayed with infectious aerosols with a promise of release if they survived. All of the prisoners lived, but the ward doctor died soon after.

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